From this month’s GQ Russia. My Russian is a little rusty, but I think the piece from this 50th anniversary of GQ issue is about ‘Forty Things That Changed Men’s Lives’. I’ve no idea what GQ has to say about… Read More »Simpson Tops Arnie and Freud in GQ Spread
How steroids got into our bloodstream and changed the shape of masculinity (Guardian, 6 Dec, 2007) ‘Roids may sound as Eighties as Cher’s black-lace bodice. But they’re baaak, even bigger and bustier than ever. According to a series of recent… Read More »Size Hero: How Steroids & Muscle Marys Conquered the World
Hollywood has apparently taken note of the global publicity surrounding uber-metrosexual English footballer David Beckham’s arrival in Tinseltown and decided to dust off America’s own, discarded metrosexual sportsman prototype, 1960s flamboyant, fur-coat wearing NFL quarterback Joe Namath and give it… Read More »Metro Cowboy to Play Metro Athlete
Despite the 45-year US economic blockade designed to make life on the island as comfortless as possible – and despite the fiercely Marxist-Leninist leadership of its famously hirsute, cigar-chomping, khaki-wearing, gay-hating, fashion-spurning legendary leader – Cuba’s younger macho men are… Read More »Cuba’s Metrosexual Revolution
Why Elvis the ‘virile degenerate’ refuses to let us rest in peace by Mark Simpson (Independent on Sunday, April 2000) Elvis didn’t want to be black, he wanted to be Tony Curtis. A natural blond, Memphis’ belle boy dyed… Read More »Elvis Hasn’t Left the Building